PENN
ZERO: PART-TIME HERO
(Disney XD, December 5, 2014-July 28, 2017)
Mercury Filmworks (season 1), Top Draw Animation
(season 2), Disney Television Animation
Sometimes, being a hero just runs in
the family. At least that’s true for Penn Zero (Thomas Middleditch), whose
parents Vonnie (Lea Thompson)
and Brock (Gary Cole) were
part-time superheroes. However, when the evil Rippen (Alfred Molina), a part-time
villain, trapped Penn’s parents in the Most Dangerous World Imaginable. It fell
on Penn to take up the family business and travel to alternate dimensions,
assume the role of the hero in that world, and save it from the threat of
Rippen and his part-time minion and Penn’s principal, Larry (Larry Wilmore), and Phil (Sam Levine), his Slavic
assistant who operated his interdimensional portal. Aiding Penn was his friends
Boone Wiseman (Adam DeVine),
a part-time wise man, Sashi Kobayashi (Tania Gunadi), a part-time
sidekick and eventually Penn’s girlfriend, and Phyllis (also Levine), the
grumpy Slavic woman who operated the portal that sent Penn and his friends to
other worlds. The late Adam West portrayed
recurring character Captain Super Captain, an electrician from a world where
everyone has superpowers, in one of his final roles.
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| Boone, Penn and Sashi. |
Created by Levine and Jared Bush, the series premiered
on Disney XD on December 5, 2014 as a
preview before officially beginning that February. The series ran for a total
of two seasons and 35 total episodes, ending in an hour-long finale. Before and
after the show’s run, it began making the rounds on Disney XD’s international
counterparts while also rerunning in the United States on Saturday mornings.
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